Ulleråker Hundred, or ''Ulleråkers härad'', was a

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and

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in Sweden. The area of the hundred stretches from the border of Hagunda hundred in the south-west to the Rivers Jumkilsån and

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in the northwest and Lake

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in the south-east. The area of the hundred was described by Wilhelm Tham in 1850 as consisting of mostly unforested fields with occasional swampy areas around the streams which flow into the Fyris or Lake Ekoln. The medieval ''Ullarakers hundare'' (the name later changed into ''Ulleråker'') had its name after ''Ullaraker'', the place of the ''

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'', which was close to the Church of the Holy Trinity or the Castle in Uppsala. The hundred consisted of the parishes of Bondkyrka,

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, Jumkil, Läby, Näs and Vänge. The hundred was (1920) part of the middle court district of Uppsala County, Tiunda ''tingslag'' and Tiunda bailiwick. In the 19th and early 20th centuries it consisted of the parishes of Bondkyrka,

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in his large, illustrated work ''Monumenta ullerakeriensia'', published in 1719. Ulleråker is also the name of a deanery in the

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The name

The name is first recorded in

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literature as ''Ullarakr'' (the late twelfth century in the case of ''

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'', and 1225 in the case of ''

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''). In Sweden, where written sources appear much later than on Iceland, the first appearance is in 1298 as ''Vllarakir''. The first element is the genitive case of the name of the Norse god

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. The last element is ''åker'' m "field, acre".

References

*'' Nordisk familjebok'', vol. 3

*Wilhelm Tham, ''Beskrifning öfver Upsala län'' (1850), pp. 154f

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